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RICHARD ROSENBLATT, AP Racing Writer
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04-10-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK


Bellamy Road, ridden by Javier Castellano, wins the $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in New York on Saturday, April 9, 2005. Survivalist was second and Scrappy T was third. (AP Photo/New York Racing Association, Adam Coglianese)

In a record-setting 1 minute, 47.16 seconds, the Kentucky Derby picture underwent a dramatic change.

That's all the time Bellamy Road needed to produce one of the more remarkable victories by a 3-year-old on the road to the Derby. Trainer Nick Zito's colt won Saturday's Wood Memorial by an astonishing 17 1/2 lengths, and in the process broke the stakes record and equaled the Aqueduct ...

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